Radio has some incredibly talented people hooked

Looking back over my radio career, I've been fortunate enough to have met and worked with some of the brightest and certainly some of the most incredibly talented people on the planet. These were good people I'll never forget, like Earnest Sparkman who gave me my first job in radio at WKIC in Hazard, Kentucky. I had tried to get a start in radio in Las Vegas but had no experience so I made that trip to Hazard to get my foot in the broadcasting door. Scott Gentry hired me at KENO in Las Vegas, when I returned, to do Top 40, a format I loved. A few years later Dave Anthony hired me to do CHR ( Contemporary Hit Radio ) at KLUC in Las Vegas, where I also worked with Dave Van Stone and dabbled in programming myself for a couple of years. KLUC was my intiation onto the FM band when AM music stations were falling away. Gary (Wooly) Waldron hired me to move to Salt Lake City take a job at 98.7 KCPX FM. Greg Ausham was another talented and gifted programmer I worked with in Salt Lake City. Steve Weed gave me the chance to move to Seattle to work with him at Magic 108 FM. Dwight Small is the chief engineer who's still there, but, today it's " The End ". Seattle grows on you fast, it's home now. There have been opportunities to leave the Pacific Northwest, but my family said they were putting down roots and wouldnt' go with me to move across country. Jay Kelly hired me to do what I love to do at 97.3 KBSG because I loved the music and thought a lot of the heritage station. The talent was some of the best I've ever heard anywhere, including Scott " Fastlane " Phillips and Mark Christopher. I'd worked with Scott before at Magic 108 and we'd stayed friends. Stitch Mitchell was hired to do nights at KBSG by Dave Logan and I'd worked with Stitch before too at Magic 108. Dave Logan, the last KBSG music radio PD, certainly gave his best effort to return the luster and ratings to the station. I've talked to a lot of people who grew up listening to it, a heritage station that'll be much missed, and they too are sad that's it's gone. What a ride. Randy Lundquist